Coffe House(18th Century)

They became popular at the turn of the 17th and 18th century: smaller merchants and industrialists went here to buy raw materials(iron and carbon from Manchester, Leeds and Birmingham; wool, spices, cotton, sugar, tea, coffee, sugar cane; tea was treated and ground and then packed[from 20 people in a single place to treat and ground the tea]). They went to pub to drink bier and spirits. They have papers and ink, which are free. They are upper-middle class men, and they imitated aristocracy. The most important coffee-house in London had the name of the family “The Lloyd”. They are having business, to write contract(business notes). Coffee-house is a sort of public office and only men can entered there. They didn’t have a company, but they were private entrepreneurs. Many of these ventures were risky. Family offered insurance for cargos(journey, ships and goods). Women weren’t allowed, but they began to hold tea parties at home. Boys were called “runners”, because they run to the port to take news(a piece of information) of masters of ships. On the wall documents about laws and (about) the prices of goods are hung. There are also time-tables of the time of departure and arrival(time of date and hour of ships). A man is checking with a candle.

Fonte: Pavi92 https://myenglish.blogfree.net/